An employee of the anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk region died of pneumonic plague

An employee of the anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk region contracted pneumonic plague and did not survive. The death of the Russian woman was reported by Baza on the Telegram channel.

Before her illness, the woman went on a business trip to Buryatia. A natural focus of infection was previously discovered in the republic near the Mongolian border, where ground squirrels became its main carriers. For the Irkutsk region, this is the first case of the disease in ten years.

Two employees worked in the department of the anti-plague institute in the Irkutsk region. The infection was not detected in the second employee. Experts began to find out exactly how the infection occurred and carry out the necessary sanitary and epidemiological measures.